Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM) Reviews

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers. I am in a networking environment and this is a solution for monitoring the activity and connectivity in a Cisco network.

The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring.

Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support.

There are still several things that need to be done in order to perfect this solution.

I have been working with the Cisco Data Center Network Manager for four years.

The stability is there with this solution.

Scaling this solution requires upgrading.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

My team is responsible for the implementation, deployment, and support of this solution.

At this point, I am happy with this product and I would recommend it. I will only switch if somebody comes out with one that is much better.

In general, this is a good solution, but there are still things that they need to work on.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Our primary use case is for monitoring and protecting companies from malware attacks as well as providing secure VPN. I'm an IT solution consultant. 

The monitoring system in this product is valuable. It provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network and the server processing, power, etc. User interface is also very good, very informative. 

It's a relatively expensive product for some clients so perhaps improvement could be made in that area. In terms of product improvement, I don't have any recommendations. I'm happy with the product as is. 

I've been providing service on this solution and using it for over 10 years. 

It's a stable product, I don't intend to replace it in the near future.

I've used the technical support many times in the past. They are very helpful. 

I've used HP in the past, but it's for enterprise companies so not comparable to Network Manager.

The initial setup is very straightforward - I use the help of an integrator for this. 

I believe cost for the product is below 5,000K.

I would recommend Network Manager for small and medium scale companies. When it comes to larger scale companies, you would need to look at HP. 

I would rate this product a nine out of 10. 

We use this product as an enterprise network troubleshooting solution and also the operator of the VPN (Virtual Private Network) solution for our enterprise network.  

For our purposes, excellent stability is the most valuable feature because we provide services for clients who need a dependable solution.  

I would like to see improved integration with other tools. It would be nice to have the ability to more easily collect information from other software when doing some types of analysis.  

We have not been using this solution for a very long time but it has been about two years.  

The stability of this product is good. It is our clients who are working with the solution. We do not get complaints. It is hard to say exactly how many users are using Data Center Network Manager in those companies. We treat the data from those customers in the system and perform analysis.  

We do not actually deal with Cisco's customer support as our clients have their own teams for this purpose. They are responsible for communications with their own contacts at Cisco, not us.  

We provide the services so the responsibility for the setup is the customer's job. It is not our responsibility to set up the system for deployment. While this may be a little difficult for less experienced users, for an engineer who is familiar with Cisco setting up the product will be easy for them. Less experienced users will probably have to contact Cisco for assistance.  

The product is licensed with contracts that work on a yearly basis rather than a monthly model.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Cisco Data Center Network Manager as an eight-out-of-ten. Maybe even a nine-out-of-ten. It is a very good product but every product can be improved. The documentation for this product can certainly be improved, for example.  

Our primary use case of this solution is for system network monitoring. We also use it for the implementation of Cisco projects and for gateway documents. We recently did a big implementation, and we did most of the features and configuration through Cisco Data Center Network Manager. So we are basically using this product to implement another one.

I like that is easy to work on and straightforward.

The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus. They need to make it simpler.

We've tried the maximum scalability and it is really scalable. We've had no problems.

Whenever we have any cases we are dire to commit to, we use Cisco's technical support. They are very good. 

We normally use Cisco products, like Cisco Management. I have a variance with SolarWinds and EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol). But we try to choose the same product from the same window from Cisco, and now we are trying to provide the same network for the management.

The initial setup was really straightforward.

This solution is the easiest and most straightforward. We would recommend it for sure. I would like to see more product devices and have the full software to the Data Center Management product to purchase. This is because the Data Center Network Manager doesn't support every product of Cisco. On a scale from one to 10, I would rate Cisco Data Center Network Manager an eight because there is room for improvement.

Our primary use case of this solution is for network monitoring and security components.

The feature I find most valuable is the stability of the solution.

It is not very easy to monitor or to browse. I would like to see an improvement in the interface. I would also like to see more feedback options.

The solution is very stable and it has never crashed on us.

The setup and installation of Cisco is very easy.

The solution is very expensive. 

I will rate Cisco Data Center Network a seven out of ten. In the future I would like to see it being more affordable.

The primary use case of this solution is to manage our customer's storage network, collect their data, and to back up their data. 

Customers want us to monitor the data samples, or they may request that we do some management of the network devices.

The deployment model we are using is a stand-alone, on-premises. For each site, they had six different types and for all of them, we used only one Data Centre Manager.

In the next release, I would like to see it merged with Prime and I think that it should be more unified.

This solution is quite stable. After installation, you almost forget that it is working.

It is difficult to provide an opinion on the scalability because each data center has its base and its own data center manager.

I could not give you exact numbers, but approximately, I would say that they have twenty devices.

I have not contacted technical support because I haven't needed any support.

The initial setup was straightforward.

If they want to mix storage in it, they can use it to manage the devices. They cannot, however, do this through the database client. It can only be done through the manager.

We are partners with Cisco.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use the product to manage access points. 

The solution needs to improve reports. 

I rate the product a seven out of ten. It is a very good solution.